Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Microsoft is set to increase the price of some of its licences by about 15 per cent in the summer.  From 1 July – the start of the vendor’s FY16…

Microsoft has both cut the price of its Surface Pro 3 and is offering up to $650 towards the purchase of the tablet-cum-laptops to customers who trade in older Microsoft…

Microsoft will double the per-PC price of support for enterprises still stuck with Windows XP systems when the anniversary of the aged OS’s retirement rolls around in April, a licensing…

One of the patches Microsoft released this month, KB2920732, has been withdrawn because it breaks PowerPoint.  The patch was billed as improving the stability of PowerPoint 2013 in a handful…

The EU Parliament has blocked politicians from using the Microsoft mobile Outlook app in the wake of security and privacy concerns centred on the siphoning of corporate credentials to a…

Microsoft is effectively killing off the Windows with Bing notebook market less than a year after it was created.

A collaboration between SUSE and Red Hat is going to bring relief to Linux users the world over: they’ll be able to patch their systems without reboots.  The live patching…

Another month, another Patch Tuesday, but this release has a special sting in the tail: a flaw in the fundamental design of Windows that’s taken a year to correct, and…

This month’s Patch Tuesday release includes three updates rated Critical, including a massive security update that fixes more than 40 flaws in Internet Explorer. A recently disclosed XSS vulnerability remains…

Microsoft has released a patch to close a bug exploited by hackers, who targeted US military and government networks.  The flaw was used to compromise Windows PCs that visited sites…

Microsoft’s part in a US$70m investment in CyanogenMod has raised many eyebrows: why is Microsoft investing in a popular version of the Android mobile phone operating system, when it has…

In 2007, Dell became the first major computer OEM to sell pre-installed Linux on their computers. Today, Dell continues to support desktop Linux. In its latest move, Dell will be…

Keeping up its poor showing in AV-Test’s assessments, the free offering from Microsoft scored a zero when it came to protection.

YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s IE11, Apple’s Safari 8,…

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Monday reported a fall in its quarterly profit that was in line with Wall Street forecasts, as sluggish personal computer sales dampened demand for Windows software…